Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 4
Articles in this issue
- p. 2
Brief reflections on the League's election season, noting that the candidates are good fellows who seek the post on merit, with a humorous parallel drawn to the presidential race for a third term.
- p. 3
A notice that the Cyclists' Touring Club handbook for 1912 has arrived, listing hotels, farm lodgings, consuls, and repair shops across Britain, available to League members at one shilling under their reciprocal agreement.
- p. 7
A poem by G.H.W. listing the British equivalents of American words, guiding American cyclists through linguistic pitfalls from 'luggage' versus 'baggage' to 'zed' instead of 'zee'.
- p. 6
A note that Wheelman James McGinley, who rode an ordinary bicycle longer than anyone else in the Boston area, plans to tour northern England for a month in July.
- p. 4
Wheelman William M. Thomas of Albany recounts receiving a League honor certificate in 1912 that had been posted from New York in May 1897 and taken fifteen years to arrive.
- p. 8
A Connecticut court ruling that a motorcycle is not a bicycle within the meaning of a law banning bicycle riding on sidewalks, with commentary on the semantic confusion between human-powered and engine-driven two-wheelers.
- p. 5
A report on the dedication of a new monument in Evergreen Cemetery by the New Haven Bi Club Veterans' Association in memory of deceased members.